Amazon Associates is more than just a way to make extra money from your books. It’s a readership study tool. When anyone uses your amazon link, it starts recording information on what they do.

Now, they do not give you names, e-mails, or any personal information. They just tell you someone used your link and what they did with that link. So don’t worry. All your information is safe! Amazon will never allow personal information to be shared! So don’t expect to use this to help you stalk your readers. (And just don’t do that. It’s creepy and weird.)

But it can help with two types of information.

How many people clink the link and buy it

What kind of other items they may be interested in

The first thing is the biggest. Is your blurb enough to catch their attention? If not, what will catch them? Is there another book they’re buying instead? Look into why. How is their book different than yours. If your books are good matches, contact that author and see about helping each other. Your book is selling theirs and vise versa, you may have a great partner in your writing and marketing work! It helps your narrow your marketing research into tools you know work!

The second thing is seeing other interests. And not just in other books. I had a friend who made $50 because a guy look at their book, then bought a hunting scope from Amazon. You will make money on anything they buy on Amazon within the 24 hours of their using your link. So you may find new interests they have. For example, if you wrote a book with a dog in it, and you find a lot of readers are looking into dog stuff too, you may want to tap into that. Use that dog as part of marketing for new readers and drawing in the current ones. It’s a tool to help you know what your readers like. Then you can get creative in how to use it.

There are many more tips on how to use these tools. I encourage you to use your research skills and look them up! This is a powerful tool and you should be using. There’s no downside. You just take an extra 2 minutes to use a special link. That’s it. And a whole world of information is at your finger tips.

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R. M. Donaldson

Rebekah Mae Donaldson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1994. Soon after, she moved to Sacramento, Californian where she spent her childhood. Being homeschooled her entire school career, she had plenty of time to work on her writing. At the age of nine, seeing her brother try his hand at writing, she taught herself to type in one day and has gone hardly a day without writing to this day.
Every day was an adventure and writing books based those adventures came as naturally as breathing. These daily games and adventures equaled up to twelve manuscripts. Listening and making up stories were as essential as food and drink. She performed in two plays a year during high school. She learned how to become and truly love a character. “Storytelling is story living, we all learn by experiencing a story, wither our own or someone else’s.” She says.
Between the start and finish of her first book “The Custodian Chronicles: The Rising”, she served a service mission with her1505348_10201308356766194_805790604_n church for eighteen months in the St. George, Utah and Kanab, Utah areas. During that time, she saw the beauty of nature and of human nature that she weaves into her works.
Apart from reading and writing, she enjoys swimming, hiking, and seeing shows with friends and family. She currently attends Brigham Young University-Idaho studying in Communications and English.
As well as writing novels, she offers services as a freelance writer for story writing, articles and interviews. She also provides, Copy-editing, Substance Editing and Development Editing. Use contact page to discuss individual pricing and time frame.